The pandemic threw a massive curveball at working parents, leaving many having to choose between working or staying home to take care of children who are learning virtually.
On the day we celebrate civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., our I-Team has learned white nationalist hate groups are on the rise in Georgia and South Carolina.
More families than ever rang in the year with a new Ring security camera. Record-breaking online purchases during the pandemic have led to more people looking to protect their packages from porch thieves.
During the pandemic this year, sales of tiny homes began skyrocketing over the summer as homeowners looked to ditch their expensive mortgages in the economic crisis for a smaller and simpler way of life.
The challenges of parenting during a pandemic has led to a domino effect in the foster care system, leaving our youngest and most vulnerable more at risk than ever.
A teenage inmate is transferred from the Richmond County Youth Detention Center and an officer is fired following a viral video on social media and subsequent investigation by the I-Team.
By Meredith Anderson and Photojournalist Irisa Wheeler
A five-month I-Team investigation into one address that’s home to hundreds of crime reports and hazardous code violations. It’s also home to hundreds of local families.
Local investigators have been pleading with the state to step in, months before the sickening of four patients, and two deaths at First Love Personal Care Home.
As cell phone usage increased to record numbers in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the I-Team found criminals swiping cellphones for cash also spiked locally.
All across the Augusta area, families are waiting for critical benefits from Social Security to life insurance. We’ve found death benefits in our region are being delayed for months, even years.
By Meredith Anderson and Photojournalist Irisa Wheeler
We’re still a month away from Election Day, and it’s already one for the history books. More people than ever before will cast a ballot at home, and that means more ballots than ever before will arrive at polling places by mail.
Cyberattacks appear to be increasing in the pandemic and cybercriminals are using new tricks against us. Now, security experts are racing to stop the million and billion dollar holdups from spinning out of control.
George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Rayshard Brooks, Jacob Blake -- the list of names protestors call go on and on. The calls for police reform are just as loud. Georgia state lawmakers heard them.
It’s now been six long months since families have been able to visit their loved ones in nursing homes. Fear of the virus led state leaders to suspend visitation in long-term care facilities in March, but keeping visitors out has not kept COVID-19 out.
Widespread and expanding community spread of the virus is impacting Georgia’s healthcare system. ICU beds are now at 85 percent capacity throughout the state. Augusta University Medical Center and University Hospital are among the dozens of hospitals diverting ICU patients to other hospitals over the last two weeks.
Nearly 2,000 patients have died from the virus in Georgia, and more than 800 have in South Carolina. Our I-TEAM analyzed the most recent data released by the state of South Carolina.
While some parents chose online learning for their children this school year, other parents are left with no choice but to allow their children to learn at least part-time from home.
Families remain cut off from loved ones in nursing homes as COVID-19 continues to ravage long term facilities. Pre-pandemic, families relied on the ombudsman to investigate allegations of abuse or neglect, but even they are now cut off from nursing home residents.
A mother and her boyfriend sit in jail charged with the murder of a 12-year-old boy. Warrants accuse Jasmine Camp and Clarence Brown of punishing the child to death while other children in the home listened.
Georgia’s top leaders say backlogs in processing COVID tests makes it nearly impossible to conduct contact tracing. But the backlog is also putting families in limbo as they wait days or even weeks in quarantine for their results.
With so many of us thinking ahead to the fall and what it means for back to school and back to any semblance of a normal life, an expanded warning from the FDA is grabbing our attention.
We're continuing to expose a troubling trend for the potential of rising cases of CTE -- not in football players, but in the US military from repeated traumatic brain injuries while in combat.
The I-Team continues to dig deeper into dispatch problems at Aiken County 911. Our ongoing investigation this month has uncovered massive turnover at the department and a lack of medical training for dispatchers compared to other local counties.
Paul Tarashuk would have celebrated his 28th birthday this month, but instead, his parents are pushing the federal government to hold Orangeburg County EMS and the sheriff’s office accountable for possible violations of the Americans with Disabilities act.
Our military fighting for our country overseas come home to face a different kind of battle. We’ve heard the letters ‘CTE’ in sports but our troops are facing it as well.
An all-new I-Team investigation reveals allegations of inhumane treatment of animals, workers injured on the job, and contaminated meat all at one Augusta business.
